Sunday, May 17, 2015

Sunday morning toons: Renouncing him thrice before the cock crowed

Well, this week must have been an
awkward one for the elder Bush brothers – Jeb "If I Knew Then
What I Know Now" Bush had to walk back, one embarrassing step at
a time, his support for George W. "This Is The Guy Who Tried To
Kill My Dad" Bush's two disastrous wars of opportunity and family honor.
Honestly, all that family needs is another son named "Regan."
Or, I suppose, "Reagan."

Oh, yeah. And George Stephanopolous donating
$75K to a Clinton foundation was both professionally tone-deaf and
politically ill-timed, but anyone who's worried about what chump
change like that might do to influence elite media coverage of a
presidential election hasn't been paying attention since January
21, 2010. They're probably shocked to discover that cheating goes
on in professional sports, too.

If you drew B.B. King bringing Lucille up to St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, or you pulled up a
too-obvious visual comparison between the Philadelphia Amtrak crash
and the thirty-five year refusal of congressional Republicans to fund
Amtrak, let alone the rest of our nation's infrastructure (some of
which, as Pat Bagley notes below, is pre-Civil War), you
probably didn't make the cut today.

Urp! Simon's
cat, goes a-courtin', with mixed results, in "Butterflies,"
directed in 2015 by Simon Tofield. Two questions: (1) Am I the only
one who thought of Marcellus
Wallace's briefcase? And (2) How did the butterfly get through
the window pane?

Matt Bors takes
a moment to pay tribute to the man who saves Clarence Thomas from
being the
stupidest justice on the Supreme Court. (And, for the record, I
use the term "stupid" in the sense of "being in a
stupor," rather than a reflection upon the measured intelligence
of either jurist.) (Although, heaven
knows. . . . )

Jesse Springer puts his thumb on
something that's grated on me since I moved to Oregon 25 years ago –
three months before Measure 5 threw public education funding into the
toilet: Oregon's schools used to be the envy of the nation, and
now even Mississippi is grateful for us. Couldn't be prouder.

Nothstine is a writer, editor, political junkie, and renegade professor. Contact him here.

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